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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 157 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia


Earthquake location 7.0786S, 94.5392WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 157 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia (98 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.5392 East, latitude 7.0786 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/04/19 / 2019-04-13 17:03:13 / April 13, 2019 @ 5:03 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us700035gr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700035gr. The temblor was picked up at 23:03:13 / 11:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 157 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.5392° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.0786° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 157km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-13 17:03:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-13 19:48:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700035gr Id of event.
Event Code 700035gr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700035gr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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